Posts Tagged ‘internet requests’

Aston Martin gets the Bang & Olufsen treatment

Monday, September 15th, 2008
The era of the luxury exotic with a so-so sound system is nearly over. Bang & Olufsen worked with product developers at Aston Martin to create the BeoSound DBS audio system that is specifically tuned to 007's cabin. Thirteen speakers -- five tweeters, five midrange, and three woofers -- are loca......

Spyker to build lightweight race-derived C8 LM 85

Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Take your exotic sports car and put it in a room with its racing counterpart. Put on some R&B, dim the lights and wait nine months. It's a winning formula that has worked for some of the world's best automakers and resulted in such stunning performance vehicles as the Ferrari 430 Scuderia, Lambo......

Spy Shots: Aston Martin V12 Vantage

Monday, June 30th, 2008
Aston Martin shocked the industry when it took the wraps off of the baby-blue V12 Vantage RS concept back in December. The idea was revolutionary yet stunningly simple at the same time: take the lowest car in the line-up and turn it into the highest. Would Aston build it? We all hoped so, and our ho......

Quantum of Solace trailer shows little bit of Aston, lot of movie

Monday, June 30th, 2008
We have to admit, when we heard the next Bond film was going to be called "Quantum of Solace," we kind of scrunched our faces a little bit. Still, Casino Royale was so good that we figured we'd give it the old innocent-until-proven-guilty treatment. Well, now we've seen the trailer, and it looks so ......

VIDEO: Bond’s DBS extracted from the drink

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The typical 007 Aston looks phenomenal, goes incredibly fast, and has enough gadgets to single-handedly depose a hostile government. Unfortunately, not all of those attributes apply when it's raining, as Mr. Bond's Euro KITT ended up at the bottom of lake Garda in Italy after a chase scene on the se......

Aston Martin DBS owners have to wait a bit longer to be Bond

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Aston Martin DBS.According to Autocar, the lucky few that have put a deposit down on the new Aston Martin DBS will have to wait an additional three-months to get behind the wheel of the body-kitted Bond car. The problem apparently stems from suppliers who ar......

Bond stunt driver takes plunge into lake in Aston Martin DBS

Saturday, April 19th, 2008
At 6:30 this morning, a stunt driver shooting a scene for the upcoming James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, lost control of an Aston Martin DBS while filming a chase scene and plunged into Lake Garda in Rome. The film's executive producer, Anthony Waye, said that the scene was being shot in the pour......

Aston Martin building website worthy of its cars

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Aston is working with its agency, Splendid, to create the DBS of car configurators, and by the looks of it, the site must have cost a lot more to build than a DBS does. Splendid started off by creating a 3D render of the car that actually looks photorealistic and not like a virtual representation th......

VW's Jetta jolting ad campaign a crashing success?

Thursday, April 6th, 2006
Those new Volkswagen television ads showing Jettas in realistic (and violent) crash scenarios appear to be working. VW reports that since the ads launched three weeks ago, requests for brochures at call centers and on the web are way up, and internet requests for price quotes have risen 59 percent.C......